Algorithmic Art…
Artist who code use Algorithms to create mind bending digital animations and paintings. Artist who create these complex algorithms are called Algorist’s. What intrigued me the most about this type of art is that its coded through different types of programming languages such as Processing , Python and Javascript and many more. The algorithms are tailored uniquely by the artist to create a design that takes coding to another level of creativity. Algorithmic art forms covers, Perlin Noise, Randomness, Fractals, Emergence, Agent Oriented Programming, Three Dimensional Drawing and Cellular Automata.
Artist Anders Hoff created a generative art project called Inconvergent. Inconvergent centers around algorithms to create aesthetic compositions, structures and textures. His inspiration for the project ranges from natural phenomena, geometry and mathematics, to architecture and writing systems.The image below uses the curvature based insertion method and took about 40 hours to complete.
Helen Alexandra codes generative algorithms to create algorithms in real time. She creates other works that pair algorithms with physical media like acrylic paint and ink, blurring the lines between algorithmic, digital, and traditional painting. She says “I’ll write code that creates real-time generative animations, essentially, moving agents that make colorful digital marks,” Alexandra explains. “Each time the code runs it’s creating a unique animation. While it is running I look for the most interesting visual moments and capture them as quickly as possible because the imagery is fleeting.” Below is one of Helen’s Projects called “You are the Sky, Your Breath is the Mantra” used with interactive projection installation Custom generative software, 3d modeling, and digital painting.
Software is used to generate these abstract designs through systems like GroBoto is a commercial IDE for creating structures based on a number of templates. TopMod3D — “is a free, open source, portable, platform independent topological mesh modeling system that allows users to create high genus 2-manifold meshes”.
Doing my blog post on Algorithmic art has inspired me to explore more mediums of how to transform code into art. These artist are of many that have dynamically used different methods to create algorithmic design patterns in complex ways. I will continue to explore and research the complexities of algorithmic art to understand how each layer of pattern interconnects with the next. To find out more follow my journey.
